No Ordinary Family star Michael Chiklis has praised the show's computer generated effects.

The actor plays Jim Powell, the head of a family that gains super-powers, in the new ABC drama

"One of the most exciting things about being in this show is what we're doing in terms of special effects," he told the Los Angeles Times. "You couldn't achieve this television series a few years ago. This [pilot] would have been a major motion picture."

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Chiklis also compared the effects on the show to his experiences working on the Fantastic Four movies.

"Five years ago, when we did the last Fantastic Four film, [the CGI] was on the same scale [as this show]," he revealed. "But now because we're able to do it in a more condensed period, we're bringing to people's television sets what formerly would only be brought to the big screen."

However, he did admit that No Ordinary Family could not hope to compete with the budget of a Hollywood film.

"That was a $100m dollar feature film, and we're banging these [episodes] out in nine days, not five months," he explained. "Considering the disparity in budget and time, it's amazing what you can do now [on television]."